Someone Failed Their Driving Test 128 Times It Cost £3000

Someone failed their UK driving theory test 128 times, spending £3,000. The previous record was 21.

Jack Austin and Adam Garcia can't believe this is real. Plus: China just wiped out Nvidia's entire business model overnight.

And the world record for snapping cucumbers that absolutely nobody asked for.

**In this episode:**

✓ 128 failed theory tests (was it a man or woman? Place your bets)

✓ UK driving test wait times hit 22 WEEKS

✓ Military testers brought in to clear the backlog

✓ Bots booking tests and reselling them for profit

✓ China bans Nvidia - 95% to 0% market share instantly

✓ Why China's happy with inferior chips (quantity over quality)

✓ Rachel Reeves already breaking tax promises (shocking)

✓ 65 cucumbers snapped in 30 seconds

✓ Why Britain hasn't innovated since WW2

**Mind-blowing facts:**

Previous theory test failure record: 21 attempts
This person: 128 attempts
Cost per test: £23
Total wasted: £2,944

China's strategy: Buy 5 rubbish chips instead of 1 good Nvidia chip. Build bigger data centres. Win.

**Quote of the episode:**
"It would've been cheaper to train a fighter pilot for the RAF than get my mum to pass her driving test"

**World Record Corner:**
David Rush: 300 world records including:
- 65 cucumbers snapped in 30 seconds
- Most toilet paper rolls balanced on head
- The world record for most world records

John Evans: That British legend who balanced Minis on his head because he "found a really good hat"

**Timestamps:**
00:00 Politicians lying (water is wet)
00:11 Where does the UK even borrow money from?
00:21 China deletes Nvidia
00:39 The driving test disaster
00:43 128 failures - HOW?!
00:46 Bots stealing driving test slots
00:51 CUCUMBER WORLD RECORD
00:56 When Britain was great (balancing cars on heads)

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This week on temporally scripted, we're gonna bring you another news episode talking about broken promises from governments, which is a very rare thing these days. We don't see that very often. And cucumbers, there's a really, really interesting story coming today about cucumbers, but if you wanna know what's gonna happen, you're gonna have to stick around. Watch till the part of the video where we discuss this huge cucumber story. It's probably the biggest breaking cucumber news story of this century. I'm here again with my good friend Adam from across the city. Adam, how are you, my friend? Very well, very excited about the, very important stories that we're about to cover today, especially with cucumbers. And, the thing about driving tasks. Yeah. Yeah. Driving tests is, is a bit of a wild one. It's, I'm, I'm surprised I can actually, I've got a, I've got a personal story from my nephew about the driving test situation as well, but, we'll, we'll come to that later on in the episode. Yeah. I've got a, a comedy, story about that as well from someone I knew many years ago, but yeah, we'll get to that in time. Le leaving cliffhangers and everything. Look at, look at our quality these days. It's amazing. We all, we, that's the kind of quality that gets you 22 subscribers. That's all I can say. Don't forget till like, and subscribe if you've watched in this far. We are ready for it. Get, get involved. Get involved. Anyway, so governments and breaking promises in the election. We've seen this week the amazing news that. Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Ex Checker in the United Kingdom, for those of you that don't know, might well be raising taxes on the British population. They promise not to raise any taxes on that one day. Every five years we get that the government do what we tell them to do. Shocking. It is unconfirmed, isn't it? It's just kind of been hinted at, but it's one of those things, it's not really a news story. If you have like politician then breaking promises, shocker. It should be a shocking thing, but unfortunately it kind of isn't. Yeah. I wonder why that is. I really don't know, but it seems to happen quite a lot. Yeah, it's almost like having a five year plan for a country is just not quite long enough. It does seem a lot that way and. I just don't really understand it. I dunno if there's anything we could do about it either. Should there be a thing? I mean, I think if it was something serious, should we have a thing where if someone's deliberately lied to get into power with promises that they blatantly couldn't keep, should there be some kind of punishment? Like stocks outside of the houses of Parliament and you know, that's what I was thinking. Yeah. It doesn't have to be something like really brutal. It's not like 20 years in prison or like hard labor or something, but stocks outside of parliament, few rotten tomatoes. If there are any tomatoes. To be fair if there's not like a shortage in the supermarket of tomatoes because we can't afford to keep the heating on in the greenhouses anymore. Yeah. And maybe it could be that. I did just wanna note back as well, another t-shirt design that we've got is, I don't really understand it, but You see, my dad was someone, and before people start shouting and going, oh, people died for your vote. My granddad actually did fight for the vote. And, never took one, never took part in a vote. And my father was a military man and he was always the same. And his reasoning behind it was, basically we get them for one day every five years. And then the rest of the time they're there for big businesses, corporations, and themselves. So, I can agree with and, you know, I'm not an idealist like I was in my twenties where I believe there should be an equal distribution of wealth, because in my opinion, that would be literally trying to fight one of the laws of nature. Like I'm sure you've heard of 80 20 and, you know, 80% of the light goes to 20% of the plants, 80% of the women go to 20% of the guys, like you name it. Right. Everything in nature has this 80 20 split, so therefore. Finance is always gonna be split 80 20, right? You're always gonna have 20% of the people with 80% of the money. That's just the way it's, and if you wanna fight against that, fair enough. But it is literally a law of existence, so good luck. Which is interesting. I dunno if there is a, a really good reason why that should happen in society too. Or maybe it's not exactly like that, but it seems like the, it's like the, the difference between that 80 and 20 in terms of, finance and money. And so it's like the, the, that top 20%, which is probably a lot less than 20% when we think about it. They have like a, just extraordinary wealth and then everybody else first standard seems to be pretty low, but I guess it would be kind of fractal as well because you could say like, developed countries versus developing countries. And so when you think of like the, the amount of a wealth that's in say Europe and America. Compared to the rest of the world. So maybe you do have that, but it, it's like, it's quite a big difference each way between Rich and. But I also think it's a distribution thing. Like I was in Hanoi last week and I saw a Maserati, Lamborghini, Ferrari, like it's, it is now even for like a hundred square meter apartment, it's almost half a million dollars in any part of Hanoi right now. So like e even in a country where the poorer, poorer, the rich is still just as rich. But then I guess, is that distribution, is that how it would be anyway? Like one of the things you blew my mind with a few episodes ago is the compound interest graph. And that keeps coming up more and more for me in the fact that everything is like this compound interest graph. Everything in existence, every activity, everything you do. So maybe that's, wealth is on that as well, right? It's just so you have super poor people and then everyone's around the same, and then it starts to get a bit richer. And then you've got, so this is where the 20% starts, which if you look at it, it is about the 20% where it starts to move. And then you've got some people right up here. Do you know? I wonder if it's just the way it is. But moving back to the whole politicians and lying and telling us stuff that doesn't, that's just to make us happy and to vote them in. They're all useless, weak people, and they're just sapling on the tet of these people that actually earned the billions and billions. So, I mean, don't, don't mincey words or anything, or, or cast any blame or call into question someone's character. I mean, I do like the phrase Suckling on the Tet, though it's one of my favorites and I don't think I've been able to use it in any previous episodes. But yeah, that, you know, they don't look like the kind of people that should be leading a nation, do they? In general? Like, you know, I, I've noticed Reese mug, who does have a cool name to be fair, started making videos about the end of, you know, the end of the Labor Party and Stama and stuff. It's like, but. It's not coming back your way, mate, because the Labor party get less popular. The Tories are managing it, you know, just as well to the point of not even existing. Yeah, exactly. And most of them are jumping ship to Farage's band. So. Yeah, it is really bad. And I mean, we've got that thing. Okay. They, they promised these things in the election, and they, it looks like we'll probably break some of those pledges now. Did they know that at the time? Maybe. Probably. But you just say things to, to get into power. But the thing is, it's like. Every election's the same. It's always like, okay, we're gonna, we're gonna fund the NHS more. We're gonna build more schools. We're gonna have a better military. We're gonna have all this stuff. Everything's gonna be cheaper. You're gonna get paid more. They all make this kind of promise. We'd never save the truth of like, well, as a country, we've been borrowing so much money that now debt to GDP ratio is basically one to one, and we have to pay a hundred billion just to pay the interest on this stat. And so, 'cause we've borrowed so much in the past, the only way is down with this as that continues to increase and we've just like, and it's so over the course of like 50, 60 years or more, but as borrowing has increased to just this ludicrous amount, it's just where it can't be repaid and a huge proportion of what the country has is going just to service this debt. And so, so you're not gonna have this huge amount of spare money to throw at hospitals or whatever else. Especially when I think it's around 50, I'm sure I do. It was around 52% of households in the UK are on benefits of receiving some sort of benefit. Yeah. And where, who, who are we borrowing all of this money from? If you know, every nation in the world is in masses of debt. Where, where's the money coming from? I don't really understand it, but the kind of phrase, I guess it must be like the Bank of England and things like that. Just the same as in America. They go to the fandom, go, okay, let's sort this out. Let's print some money. And that's with that. So in a similar way to how that creates money, when you go to a bank and say, I want a mortgage for like 200 grand or whatever. They don't like as the bank, they don't take someone else's money out of their vault and give it to you. They just write that as debt and then that money is just created. Yeah. So Elon Musk explained it as, or something similar, and I won't use his exact language just in case, but he's like, you've got two guys walking down the road. One guy goes, okay, there's a, there's a dog turd over. I'll give you a hundred dollars if you eat that dog turd. And he goes, f*** okay. So he eats it gets a hundred dollars, get a carry on walking. The guy who had the first turd, he sees another one, he goes, alright, I'll give you a hundred dollars if you eat that dog turd. So he does. Walking down, we're both feeling sick about to throw up and like, should we give this up now? And these guys are both economists, and we go like, no, no. Think about it. Our economy's booming. We've got like $200 in this economy already. Yeah, but they didn't, it's just the same a hundred dollars. And it's that kind of, that's kind of how it works. Yeah. Because it's not really built on anything. I've heard a similar story to that where it's like, there's three guys and one guy lends the other guy 10 quid or 10 pounds, and then he lends the third guy 10 pounds, and then the third guy lends 10 pounds to the first guy. So now everybody's, everybody's hadn't spent 10 pounds, which is 30 pounds. But it doesn't really math. Yeah, exactly. But then the thing is, with that, it's also a bit like a game of like musical chairs or something like that. And at some point the music stops and someone's. Sure. Or only one persons ahead, or man two's gone and bought, you know, four Stellas or something. Yeah, exactly. And a greasy kebab. But yeah, but this is, it. It's, so, it's like when, for making obvious promises, there's no way they'd have money to do it. Plus, as we've spoken about before, they've dissuaded rich people from being in the uk So we've had loads and loads of millionaires just leaving in this mass exodus, and it's the top 1% that pay 30 something percent of the tax. So all they can do is then raise national insurance or whatever else to, to try and recoup some money. So it then makes everybody. Fat, little bit poorer. And I mean the, I, I dunno, but to me it seems like a lot of things in the UK it's just cooked. You know, it's like I, I dunno if you've spoken to anyone recently and they've had good experiences with healthcare or things like that, the stories I've heard haven't been so good. And it involves huge waiting lists, inefficiencies, just incompetence, all kinds of things. Or then you'll hear those stories about can't get an NHS dentist, or someone's got a pair of pliers and pulled their own teeth out or whatever and it's just a mess and it shouldn't be, but it is, and it's just misallocation of funds into all kinds of other things that don't make sense while not looking after to the people. Yeah. Like safe spaces for homeless drug users to go in high end city centers. Yeah. Or huge amounts of many for various hotels and things for people that have recently arrived claiming that they need asylum when they probably don't. I mean, I saw something, just taking it back to you mentioned, I think it was about your granddad who was in like, for war and things like that. I watched a clip yesterday, and they were interviewing a guy who was in the second World War and he was like 104 years old and he was saying like, look, I was there, my friends died. I can still see all those white, white gravestones now. And now when I look around at Britain. I don't think it was worth it. Crazy. And he was just dismayed at the state of things. And it's true if you look around at what's happening, if you look around at the leaders and things like that, you know, if you try and compare Starmer or Boris Johnston to someone like Winston Churchill, there's a big difference. Kind of, yeah. This hold two tier here. Yeah, it's, it is, it's, it is interesting. Oh, okay. Ladies and gentlemen, if you do want to hear my idea, please send me an email to jack@temporarilyscripted.com, which is not our email address, but I'm 20 Yeah. And 20 pounds. And I will absolutely tell you my idea to fix the United Kingdom. But yeah, I think people are just, it's like, it's like sales, right? When we're, we're also tired of being sold to that. If you go in and do a traditional method of trying to make sales, people just ignore you and they don't wanna talk to you because they're so used to being sold to all the time. And it's the same with like politicians, isn't it people are almost, they've got getting past anger into apathy. You're just so used to them telling you stuff that you just know is never gonna happen. Maybe it should be a bit like sales. If you work in a call center or something like that, selling sky TV or whatever, like I have, you'll get your basic rate, which is rubbish, and then you'll get commission, depending how many sales you've made. Maybe in politics it should be like that. Make the basic wage. Yeah. Pretty bad actually. Let's, let's make it not too appealing. And then if you do really well and you can, you can prove that you've really accomplished, like the, the task that you were given. Then get a pay rise, get some nice Christmas bonus or something like that. Maybe there should be some incentives. Um, uh, have give them like the opportunity to, um. A lot more. And this is, you know, there, there are, there is some hope in there as well. I sent you a video earlier on, which you won't have had time to look at yet, but there's this movement called, LFG, looking for growth at the moment in the uk. Headed up by a guy called Matt Clifford, who's, a co-founder of this startup called Entrepreneur First. He used to be a chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, and he's got this process that he's bringing out. It's called Make the UK Rich Again. Right. And he is trying to shift the culture empire. Well, it is, you know, he's really pushing for making the UK like more ambitious and optimistic and. Like bringing a political party through that is about how do we become richer as a country? And it's almost become like a dirty thing to say, you know, like people are almost like, because of the UK's history and the way things were done in the past, people are like ashamed and feel like we can't even say we wanna make the country rich again. But that is the solution to the problem is to make more money, right? One way or another. To have more money in the system, have more people paying taxes, have more people contributing. All that makes a better place. Really create more jobs, build up all the things that you need. But again, there's a lot of problems with that as well. And it, it's all that thing of like, it's linked to taxes and then. I think we've mentioned it before, where you'll have, some labor politician going, okay, the UK is gonna become a hub for ai. And it's like, how are you, how are you gonna run the data center when you have the highest industrial electricity prices in the world? You know, am I gonna put my data center here or in America where it's like a quarter of the price for electricity? You know, it's like, I dunno, there's just certain stumbling blocks, but big ones to get over, I think. But I also, I think there's other ways, you know, it's like as a nation that's, that always had a way around things and a way of figuring stuff out. It is possible. It's just we don't do anything innovative. It feels like we are now followers of everybody else as a nation. And instead of trying to do something new or different, or think of our own ideas, it's like, oh, ai, let's jump on that. Oh this, let's jump on that. And we are like copycat other countries that we can't possibly compete with on that level. But there are things that we can compete with, you know, like being charming and, you know, saying good morning to people in the street and opening doors. Sarcasm. Comedy. Maybe that's, that's our role in the future, maybe 'cause we're sucking at everything else. Yeah, exactly. But we're still the world's best. They still had a British guy hosting the Golden Globes for seven years. A few years ago. Rock stars. A few years ago. We still got Coldplay. Anyway, moving on. You mentioned AI and tech it brings us nicely into the next story. I do love a good segue, although whenever we say segue, it makes me for some reason think of those weird machines that you stand on. Wheel around, which seemed to have disappeared from history. And it's not spelt the way you would expect either, but yeah. Speaking about AI and technology, so the next story is about Nvidia, which if you bought shares of five years ago, you definitely would be sat around all day, touching yourself and not doing any work because they've gone crazy. But things may not be as rosy as they seem now because China doesn't use them anymore because of everything that's gone on. So Nvidia have gone from a 95% market share to a 0% market share because there's no China revenue in their forecast. They've been banned. Yeah. Yeah. So China just went, yeah, we don't, we don't want you here and we don't want your chips. but now China's gone, actually it doesn't matter. We'll make our own, which won't be as good. But I would imagine the thing is with China, they can do things at such a scale where, say, instead of like for every hundred chips of Nvidia, it might take 500 of the Chinese ones to do the same thing. But they're all right with that. They'll just make them and make bigger data centers, I would think. We've already seen it play out in other markets like manufacturing and industrial in the past, people would buy a German machine that would last a hundred years and depreciate over a longer period of time, but they could buy five Chinese ones for the same price, and they might only last 20 years a piece. But they don't care. It doesn't matter. Right. And the initial outlay is less so they just go ahead and do it. So we've seen this play out already and I think what's, what's happened as well is like China know that the reason that they are reliant on the, on the rest of the world is because of the. Precious, precious elements or whatever. Rough minerals. That's the one. That's why I've got you here, Adam. You see, that's why it's good you're here every week. Excited to Yeah. Translate for me to the audience. Just to, yeah. Just, just to translate now. But they, they basically went through that list and figured out how they can get everything domestically, because China's massive. So now they're in that position where they don't really need other nations to provide stuff. And eventually they've just figure stuff out themselves because they're good at copying and learning how to do things yeah, I mean, I don't think, I think there's still, they don't seem to have attack for the US has. I think for them it is like, it is a loss for 'em not to be using an Nvidia chips, but that's just gonna be how it is. Will they be able to catch up over time that maybe, there is that worrying thing though, that we're making this AI thing, and as we know, it can be biased. It can have, it can have a certain, almost ideology in a way, depending how it's programmed. And it's just that thing. Who do we want to win? Do we want, do we want it to be open? Ai? Do you want it to be, deep sea cover the Chinese government. We want it to be grok. I don't know. It's something, but I think we've gotta be very careful of. Do you not think that deep seek sounds like it's an Indian ai? I would like to hear it in, Indian accent. Yeah, we're not gonna do that, ladies and gentlemen. So there's definitely not gonna happen, but it does. Whenever I hear deep secret, it just makes me think India. Yeah, no idea why. But yeah, I, I, I, I guess, who knows? I think both have their own benefits and, and, and downsides on who wins that AI battle. A lot of it, I'm not even sure how much it, it's gonna make a difference. The hype is crazy today because today, well, when you're watching this, it'll be a few days ago, chat, GT 5.1 has just hit the market. I noticed they must be hedging their bets a little bit. If you remember when chat GT four came out, we got 4.5, so they were like, oh, it's a whole half step better. Whereas this time, maybe because chat GT five was so underwhelming, they're just going, it's chat, GT 5.1 set the expectations low. I've not had a chance to test it out yet. But I mean, on both sides these things are mass collecting data from us. And I think everything is scary when it's unknown, right? As humans, we're always scared of things we don't know. So if you're from a Western nation. You're likely to, to be happier for open AI to take over and win. Whereas if you're from the eastern side of the world, you probably prefer a deep seek or whatever. What I find quite interesting is there isn't a British AI or a big British AI company that I know of. There probably is, but I don't know of a, of a British thing and I don't know of a, a European thing and it makes me think. So have we just accepted Again, like I said earlier, we've accepted that we're secondary to the rest of the world. Ah, it's all right. America have built one. So what? We don't need to bother building our own. It seems like ever since maybe World War ii, we've just been like, ah, space, what? Well, they're gonna go anyway, so we'll leave that someone else. So we'll just chill with our feet up in the sun. Lounger. You know, just watching everyone else do cool stuff. Do you know, I don't get it. And you'd think after, I mean some of the stories that you hear from the Second World War about, for crazy innovation and inventiveness for various British people had it seemed like the sort of culture had as a whole, it was just so much amazing stuff. And then you fast forward to now that doesn't seem to be much of that going around. And you would think that it'd still be ingrained somehow in the British kind of psyche or way of looking at things. But yeah, maybe there just isn't the money to do it and there hasn't been for a long time 'cause everything's just been on this gradual. Oops, this gradual down curve, ladies and gentlemen. There is a, there's an earthquake going on where Adam is right now, which is why the, the screen was shaking slightly. I have to say over time desks are, I, I did make a mistake of buying, so this makes, I bought a, a, a local grade monitor, which I guess is either Vietnamese or Chinese, and it's great. Everything about, it's fantastic, but the stand is so low quality that if I move anything, it's just the whole, the whole thing shakes around, all over the place. And I think this is, you know, it's a testament to the state of society right now is everything's just more wobbly and not quite as well built as it used to be. You know? Yeah, I can see that. If, I think if the, going back to the thing we were saying about Britain and the way it's going, if, if we use for monitor analogy, then it would be the other way around. For Britain it would be like, the stand would be really good, that little bit. But the main monitor would be terrible. It'd be fuzzy, it'd be grainy, probably some lines across it. But a few little bits are pretty good. Like just the same way that the government's really good at like, handing out fines for like minute little things or sending someone to jail for social media. But the really big things that are important just can't deal with it. It sort of sounds like the Soviet Union in, the turn of the century before last. It is a similar situation with less starvation of course. Maybe the plan is to reach similar levels of bureaucracy and things like that with your digital ID and all that kind of thing. I dunno, and just, just to frog boil. Yeah, I, I wonder if there's an angle on this Nvidia stuff, just back to that where, so obviously like Beijing has said that they want to take any of these chips out of things that are only 30% or less complete. Any foreign chips have been locked out, all of this kind of stuff. I wonder if there's been an attempt somewhere to weaponize these chips. How they operate.'cause surely that's possible, right? Like if you remember the whole thing with Hove or Hawaii, or it's Hove, but I, I think in the, in the Huawei, Huawei, yeah, they were obviously, there was concerns there about these chips gathering data and like the phones listening in and passing information back to the Chinese government and stuff. Oh, because they were. Didn't they? Just off the top of my head, I might have this wrong, but didn't, wasn't very, a big government contract years ago in the UK and far away, we're gonna do all like mobile phone masks and things like that. 5G. But then it was discovered. Yeah. But then it was discovered that they could actually listen in or kind of siphon off some data and see what was going on. Which obviously is ma massive national security frat. Yeah.'cause I mean, we only want our population listened to by our allies. Right. That's, that's how it works. Usually it's is like, so something like that. Canada listens to the uk. The UK listens to like the eu. The EU America listens and they kind of give each other the information instead. And that's fine. So it's not protecting people in the country, just so everybody knows it's about protecting. The people that are not part of that circle of, you know, I don't wanna call it a circle jerk, but that thing that's going on, where they all listen to each other's people for our safety, you know? Yeah, along those lines. I mean, the older I get, the less I care as well, you know, like I used to be like, oh, I don't want, I'm listening to this and that. It's like, I don't, I really don't do anything that interesting. I might look at the Odd dodgy website doing market research for, you know, because the best titles come from porn sites, so I occasionally find myself on one of those. And, you know, my, my Apple Watch might slow a, a, a slight increase in heart rate as I'm looking at these websites because I'm just so excited by the marketing potential of the titles. But I don't really care if people know what I'm looking at and what I'm observing and stuff. I, I honestly couldn't really give a shit. I do kind of know what you mean, where. When I was younger, I would care a lot more about it. It's like if we're bringing in, I dunno ID cards or digital IDs or whatever else, or even doing like the census and things like that, it's like, oh, well gonna give the government. All that information. I think now there's so many companies that know so much information about you anyway. You kind of think, well, D does it matter if a government knows what toothpaste I use or something like that? Because the amount of data that's been gathered from via Google, Facebook, probably tiktoks terrible for it. Whatever else you've been on, it's a huge amount of data that they know about you already. And you don't, you probably don't have that much more to lose. I would think this is it, right? It's not. You've already had the equivalent of being fully, you know, strapped up, bent over, whatever else. You might as well just crack on. You can't, you can't close the gate now. It is already, it's already done. The horse is bolted. Do you know what I mean? It's like the equivalent of Paris Hilton getting married again and telling the guy that he has to wait until the wedding night. It's just what, for what? We've all seen it. Many people have seen that. And I dunno if you've noticed how many more times you get a password compromised now Google tells you, mine, says I've got 157 passwords that have been compromised or whatever. And again, it's because now this data is Oh, data leaks and Yeah, and data leaks. So it's happening more and more and more all of the time. So, you know, probably in some ways the government knows less about us than all the companies that we deal with and work with and stuff, and, and probably buy the data from them. One for the worst things with the government having so much data about us or getting more of who's gonna be digital IDs and things is that it's just a security risk. I mean, I, I dunno about other countries, but in, in the UK there's so many different government systems would've been hacked and then data taken from there. Or there's even, I remember like mad ones where there'd be like a guy who's like a senior civil servants and you had all these like, it was loads of files and details about like a lot of people and on these like DVD discs and you just left 'em on a train and someone later found them kind of thing. There's all these kinds of things where it's just like a security risk and that's the only thing I've, I'd rather in some ways Facebook know my password and know my birthday and things than trusting back with the government.'cause I, I can't trust them. To keep it a secret or not. Let it get stolen by someone else. Someone's gonna get hold of it because of the fact that there's no infrastructure really, or good infrastructure to hold it safely, you know? Well, it, it's that thing in the uk I dunno if you've seen the news recently where there's loads of prisoners who just keep escaping. I can't remember how many RA at the moment, but it's, it's like, 'cause there was a couple of higher profile cases, but then they looked into it and it's like, loads of prisoners just keep getting released from prison by accident. And it's like, yeah, yeah. Have you seen those, those that Chinese Circus Act where they get a load of people and they're all stood like in a, in a row, and then people go on their backs and their backs and it becomes like a human pyramid. Oh, right, okay. Yeah. So apparently, because UK prisons are so overcrowded now. It's just like that. So people could just walk up the pyramid over the wall and off they go. Well, and yeah, but that would make sense. Yeah. They're just straight out, no problems over. And there's holes in most of the war and stuff now anyway. And you know, you've got like one prison guard. I think they've started looking into like Venezuelan prisons to, to see how they could manage things in a similar way. Right. Well, it'd be deterrent. I dunno if you've ever been in Nottingham. They have the Galleries of Justice, which is like an old courthouse and they've set it all up about like how prisons used to be 150 years ago or whatever. Back then they did used to just let the prisoners that had been in there longer become the guards. Basically so that you know that might be a solution if you couldn't afford food or your family didn't bring any food in for you, you had to sell your teeth and get it replaced maybe with like a horse's tooth or whatever. Yeah. So, you know, maybe that is a solution for the future of, of prisons. Or maybe we could just stop locking people up for riding their bike with no hands and actually catch some real criminals. Yeah, you could do, but that takes a lot of time, a lot of effort. Not gonna happen for a while. So moving on from, from China, and back into the system, in the uk Right. And it's the story I alluded to earlier about my nephew actually tells us about the system before we get into this story. So my mum messaged my nephew the other week and asked if he booked his drive-in test. He said, oh yeah, I've booked it. It is for the end of March. I was like, March? How does that make sense? So apparently the waiting list right now to do a driving test in the UK is 22 weeks. Course it is 22 weeks. So they've just brought the military, driving testers in to do an extra load of tests to try and bring it down to an eight week target. That's insane. How did it get this bad? How can it be so disorganized that'cause that's affecting all kinds of things because people become more productive when they have. The ability to drive, because they can transport themselves, they can transport others, they can, everything just makes it more productive. So that's just another thing that's less money being made. Less money floating around the economy. Only a small amount. Yeah. But it's just like an extra another thing on top of a vast array of everything else. It is a drop in the ocean, but it's just mental. Yeah, exactly. So that made me laugh. And then bringing us the story today, so this reminded me of my dad and what he said about my mum. He said it would've been cheaper to train a fighter pilot for the RAF than it would've been to get my mum to pass her driving test. But recently it looks like somebody's, somebody's beat that. So apparently there's a learner driver in the uk. That has failed their theory test, which is the written test. For those of you that don't know, 128 times, that's, quite a lot of what stage do you think they go? Should, maybe the bus is a better option by about attempt 15? I think I, I'd definitely be thinking, you know, maybe, maybe this is just not gonna happen. Maybe I should just sort of quit. It's good to sort of have consistency and be, and dedication and things like that, but like 128 times, would you not at least say, right, where did I go wrong last time? I'll, I'll, I'll work on it for next time. Yeah, and you can't even get, so I remember probably not this way, you can do it online now I guess, but you used to get like a cd, which you could put into your CD ROM in your computer, and then you could take the actual test like as many times as you want at home, so, right. Yeah. So there must be a website that does that these days. Many websites, I would imagine. Yeah. So 2,944 pounds is what they spent doing this. I, and I don't even know if they've actually passed it yet or not. No, I couldn't see if it, it didn't say anything. Well, it said that, I mean, yeah, it said that the record number of attempts before this was 21. So, this person smashed for record. You know, it's a big achievement. Maybe that was the aim because, you know, the world we live in now, maybe they were like, oh, what can I get famous about? How can I get more views on my TikTok? Just like clout chasing on social media. Yeah. What could I, what, what could I do to, to do, whoa, I wonder what the record number of times for taking a theory test is. 21. I mean by this time, right? I've got three grand. You've probably got your own locker and your own PC at the DVLA testing center. Got your own coffee mug with your name on. It's like, oh, Dave's coming in tomorrow for the, yeah. Yeah. Hundred 29th time. And, I mean, I wonder what the, what the, the waiting list is like someone here from the aa, Emma Bush, she's the managing director at the AA driving school. She said that, you know, it is easy to underestimate the level of knowledge required to pass the theory test. I mean, I remember being a kid and there was still like a, a couple of little, books lying around in my house when my parents had learned to drive. And it was like the highway code. So it's only like a thin little thing, but had all the fat in. You'd only really need to know that. Some common sense and a couple of other bits, and that would be it. Yeah. I did mine on my 17th birthday'cause I was, because I lived in, like the asshole of nowhere. If you didn't have a car. Well, thought, I thought you were gonna say I did mine on my, uh, 17th attempt. No, no first attempt and, and my driving test, by the way, just, just clean through the driving equivalent of an angel poo. Right. It was just like, boom, done driving. But yeah, it's, it, because I lived in the middle of nowhere. I went in and did it and it, it wasn't very difficult to do. So I, I kind of don't understand it. I think once you've not passed it five times, you should probably get a ban. But yeah, it's like me going and having trials for like rail Madrid or something like that, and I keep going and going go like, look for one, you're terrible at football Two, you're 43. It's not gonna happen. It, it's over for you. Those days are gone. Yeah, those days are gone. I'm still recovering from playing football three weeks ago, so it's, not gonna happen. I read a bit further into this story and it gives us an insight into why my nephew had to wait so long. So apparently there's a load of bots on the government website for booking driving tests and individuals and companies are using these bots to block book driving tests, slots, and then resell them at a profit. Which is apparently not illegal, but it's a violation of the dvs a's terms of use. Right. Okay. It could be someone that's, just really smart, and just saw some kind of, loophole in the system and just went, huh, interesting. And maybe it's come from that, I think they should put these pre people in the overcrowded prisons that we've got. Like it's, that, that's just, is that it's a government service. Like how is that not illegal? Like why are they messing around with all these other laws? And it's like, that's like the equivalent of. Booking doctor's appointments for people on the NHS and then selling them, and then selling them a, a profit. Oh, what, what, what do you think wrong? That's a good idea. Let me just get my notebook. Well, what's, what do you think's wrong with your cancer? Yeah, a hundred quid. Jeez. Hundred quid. I can get you an appointment, otherwise probably gonna die. Cancer. Take it. I'll leave it up to you. Your choice. What? Ingrown, toenail, tenor. Because it's not about a problem. You, you could scale the pricing based on how serious the problem is as well. Yeah. Yeah. I dunno what we'd call it. Speedy doctors.com uk. Yeah. Speedy doctors. Sick child. 500 quid. Yeah, could have like some deals for like Black Friday and things like that, and different times of the year. Boxing Day sale. But stock up now on your January cold and flu appointments at the doctor. You could do gift cards. Three jobs. A returner. Yeah. Gift cards. You know, Christmas is coming. Not sure what to get Grandma. She's definitely gonna get sick at some point. Get her this one year voucher for, you know, a quick doctor's appointment. Yeah. Maybe this is a way forward. You just need to monetize and tokenize everything. And off we go. Beautiful. Beautiful. I love it. So, learner drivers, anything more to say on this? I don't think so, really. I, I think, like you said, maybe. There should be like, so many attempts that you can have. And then after that you should just maybe say, well, you can try again in 10 years and see if it's different.'cause it, it's a bit, it just seems crazy really. There's gotta be something going on there. Yeah. I, I dunno what, but something is, and maybe some people just aren't meant to be on the roads. There's nothing wrong with that. They're probably really good at other things and could do something else, but I think driving isn't gonna be one of them. It's not up there, is it? It's definitely not up there. Have you ever piloted a motor vehicle, Adam? Only a motorbike. Yeah, a motorbike. I remember we've obviously driven up and down on the bikes where we are and of course you are fully licensed and insured, to do so. So that's, that's fine. Yeah, exactly. Moving on. Funny story I had about, driving tests was when I was in college. It was about that time when everyone was taking the tests and things like that. And there was this guy and, he looked dead excited on one night, oh, I'm doing my driving tests tonight, it's gonna be dead good. And next month you get some of this, college bus looking not so happy. And it's like, so how did meta go mate? It's like, oh, I kind of crashed. Just thought it was really funny. It's not the best way to go about things, isn't it? Yeah, that's definitely a major. It's definitely a major, I think so. Crushing into another car on a roundabout. Not so great. Yeah, you don't look up at her and go, is that, is that a minor? Can we, can we carry on? I I think we can get it back to the, that'll buff out. That'll buff out. Just get, get a bit of tea cup. It wasn't it Get a teacup, fixes everything. But a Tea cup bit of WD 40 will be, will be sound. No, I'll know any different. Uh, exactly. Right. So I guess from a record breaking amounts of theory tests next we've got a, a record breaker of a, a completely different kind. We have indeed. And this is the story, you know, that we kind of brought you guys the excitement, the reason people are still here listening right now. And if you are, don't forget, subscribe, hit the bell. Um, I don't, I dunno why I pointed down when I said hit the bell. It wasn't deliberate. It is down there. But yeah. Anyway, somebody is broken. The world record for snapping cucumbers. It's pretty, gotta let that sink in for a second. Just, just let that sink in. The world record has been broken for snapping cucumbers, and the new level for 30 seconds is 65 cucumbers. David Rush has broken this record. What a legend. He's done it on Spanish tv. The TV show is l Homi Guro Adam, help me out here please. I know your Spanish is very good. Okay. Yeah. Maybe, I dunno if I can find it now that it's cool. It's called Yeah, which means v apparently. So yeah, did, I mean, I watched for video several times.'Cause I found it, found it absolutely captivating. It's probably TV highlighted the year, in my opinion. What, what did you think of this, this achievement? I mean, the technique is just outstanding. I've just never seen a technique like it when it comes to snapping cucumbers. In fact, I've never seen anyone else snapping cucumbers, to be honest with you. I was thinking that I've never actually seen someone snap a cucumber. Why is there a world record for snapping cucumbers? I mean, there's world records for all kinds of stuff, isn't there? I saw one before where it's the world record for eating baked beans with a toothpick. All right. So very interesting hand gesture. I wonder how they train for these things. But yeah, Ross, so many of these, world records and I looked a bit more into it. So, David Rush, who holds record for cucumber snapping, he's got a lot more world records as well, around 300. There was one year where he broke 52 world records in 52 weeks, which is mad. And yeah, I was having a look at it. So some of his other achievements in world records is like most juggling catches in one minute with three balls, longest duration, juggling three objects, which was 13 hours. Most final records smashed in 30 seconds. Fastest time to fold and throw a paper aircraft. Most toilet paper rolls balanced on head so low. So there must be a team one as well, I dunno. And it just goes on and on with those kinds of things. So almost like a professional Guinness World record breaker. So could he get the world record for the most number of world records? He did. Yeah. I think he had that, that that's one of the ones in his list achievements. That's wild. I mean, I do like some of these world records and wacky things. I think they bring some light humid to the world when it's really needed. Do you remember the little short fat guy who used to balance crates on his head and he used to be on like blue Peter and stuff in the nineties and he had this special hat that he bought one day and this hat was the basis of him balancing stuff on his head and he started balancing mini minis on his head and stuff. So there's this guy and he used to balance minis on his head and I kid you not, he said the reason he started it is 'cause he found a really good hat. That was good for balancing stuff on his head. This strengthen this, this is the Britain that we've lost. Right. No longer do you have a dude who can balance minis on his head. Right. I mean, maybe the beast has started doing it, but yeah, there was just this little random guy, John Evans' name was, who just liked to balance heavy shit on his head. Good. I mean, why not? That's commendable. Yeah. So, that was his talent and he'd spent his whole career just going and balancing stuff on his head, like, you know, women in boats, all kinds of stuff. So when you were saying earlier about that guy who's launching some business or enterprise to make the UK stronger and. Oh, better. Again, I, is that the kind of thing that he'll be promoting, do you think? Yeah. You know, John Evans balancing minis on his head, Fred Diner, making videos of taking down, you know, industrial stuff, which, if you've never watched a bit of Fred Diner, you should Oh man, takes you back to a simpler time. No, it really does. It is wholesome. Wholesome viewing on tv. Absolutely. Simplest kind of thing. Yeah. Do you think there's a world record for pulling kernels off sweet corn? Oh, definitely. Yeah, because there'll be people doing like different techniques, so you probably have some long kind of skewer things and Yeah, it'll be, or someone's got some other crazy way that they've found. You can see why some of these skills are probably cross, you know, you can use them in other areas of life to break other world records and stuff. You know, you've got like this and this and all of this stuff. There's quite a lot of, you know, like exactly tuning the radio for example, or, and wiping a stain off a dirty t-shirt, you know, all of these kind of things. It needs to be a lot of practice, to get these kinds of techniques right. But yeah, it is interesting. It's funny as well then it, because that thing of the guy breaking cucumbers, there's something about it that we go, wow, that's really interesting. It's not in a way, but why do you think we've go, oh, that's cool. Oh wow, wow. Good. It's like, we seem happy to hear that muse. Yeah, there's some, there's just some novelty to, to hearing something quite that random, you know, there's something like extra random about it that just makes you, it's like a light, a news story. Like I'd much rather read stuff about that than, you know, all the other stuff that you see on the news about wars and potential wars and yeah, like potential things. It's almost like a, like things, I guess it's almost like a kind of pattern interrupt or something as well, in a way. I don't know.'cause it's, it's something that you, you just not programmed to expect or think is gonna happen. You just read. That's like, okay. And I definitely think you're right where it, it is a welcome break from everything else with, in the news. do you remember years ago when you got on like a, a train or a bus in the morning, you'd get a free copy of the metro? Oh yeah. And it was always like, you'd have like news on the front, second page news. I think the third page, it, it just have some like really lighthearted story. So it'd be like, oh, a cow and a monkey have made friends, or something like that. Or this weird thing happened in Bogner Regis and it was just like, it was really cool 'cause like miserable. Miserable. Oh right. Hey. And it just sort of cheers you up some level of randomness that just brightens the day ever so slightly. Yeah. And just to remind everyone that it's not all bad. This is it. We need more cucumber snappers in the world. I think that's the note we can leave today's episode that that's the key takeaway. That is the key takeaway. Thank you everybody for coming along today. Thank you, Adam. Coming along. I'm talking like it's a, a wedding. Thank you everybody for coming along today and supporting us. Um, but we, we do appreciate all 22 of you subscribers, even though three of them at least are me and a couple of probably Adam, but if you have got to this point Yeah. You know, don't forget, like, subscribe. We will be back again next week and as long as I don't lose the recording in Riverside, we'll be good. And yeah. Until next time, Adam, thank you very much. It's always a pleasure indeed. It is. Okay folks, see you next time. See you next time everyone.